What Kanye did for Tidal is crazy

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Nah lmao they can't flat out lie about the numbers. That would be fraud because Tidal has share holders and lying about the number of streams is basically the same as a car company lying about how many cars they sold, to drive up their stock. The numbers are true

it's a privately held company. Where tf you got your info from?

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

400 million streams so far on tidal

Made it a Tidal exclusive, RIAA mad as shyt and refused to consider it even though it would've been the biggest hip hop release of the year based on the Tidal streams alone.

Took a paycut for Tidal, by not releasing it on the market for purchase

Kept working on the album and released an updated version to fully take advantage of Tidal's service

250 million streams in the first 10 days

As a point of comparison, Spotify, which counts 30 million paid subscribers to Tidal’s three million global users, said its best week of streaming belongs to Mr. Bieber’s latest album, “Purpose,” which debuted to 205 million global streams in seven days, and 224 million in its first 10 — fewer than Tidal’s count for “Pablo.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/arts/music/kanye-west-life-pablo-tidal-streams.html

Where are all the people that were clowning Kanye nonstop for releasing it on Tidal now?

Mocking the man for supporting a black owned business

Everyone was saying Tidal can't be successful? WTF is Jay thinking going against Spotify?

Kanye proved all that shyt is false.

that's my goat

 

[YourMumsRoom]

He did for Tidal and Jay, what Jay did years back fro Def jam.

 

[RTF]

Kanye claims to have rejected a £100m deal from Apple to roll with Spotify. Even if he lying and it was only £10m..... that's massive. For the love of Jay.

These times Jay Z stopped wanting to be next to Kanye because Kanye married a reality TV thot and amateur pornstar. Didn't even go to duke's wedding.

Kanye on some "still got love for you" ish.

That's my Yeezus

 

[RTF]

Btw minus a Beyonce exclusive for 3 weeks or so, this was the biggest move Tidal could possibly do. Rihanna aint wanna risk her album like that.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Wasn't Toure hating on Tidal a few weeks back, talking bout Kanye exclusive not gonna move the number from its 1 million subscribers?. This dudes punditry is terrible.

Toure is and has always been a self deluded fakkit. Him and his fruity hairstyle should just go away already.

Be a so called left wing "black" intellectual brehs...

 

[BarackStar]

Negged for the lame April fools

Tf? I'm listening to it on Google play right now. Do I gotta screnshot?

 

[Mike Otherz]

People seriously underestimate the power that Ye has. If Jay dropped a Tidal exclusive, the number of subscriptions would have been way lower. I understand the hate for the updating album process too, but its actually a really smart move. He still gets people to listen to the album and to talk about it, almost 2 months after its released. Lets not forget tho that Jay's post-Black Album career is due to mostly Ye and also Beyoncé. Jay should thank God on his knees for Kanye

. With this back handed hov slander. I happen to think his music isn't as good with kanye and Beyonce. They werent around for his prime. You bey and ye stans need to get over yaselves. I fx with ye and bey but this whole jay is irrelevant without them is a silly claim. And besides, relevance is overrated, and jay helped them both more than they did him.

 

[RTF]

. With this back handed hov slander. I happen to think his music isn't as good with kanye and Beyonce. They werent around for his prime. You bey and ye stans need to get over yaselves. I fx with ye and bey but this whole jay is irrelevant without them is a silly claim. And besides, relevance is overrated, and jay helped them both more than they did him.

I love Jay but the last line isn't true.

 

[cartierhoe]

Thats my goat

 

[Ms. Elaine]

I don't fukk with Tidal but I heard Life Of Pablo for the first time today.

It's legit.

That's real music right there; not that cacophony of pretentious garbage that Kendrick is trying to pass of as "art".

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

400 million streams so far on tidal

Made it a Tidal exclusive, RIAA mad as shyt and refused to consider it even though it would've been the biggest hip hop release of the year based on the Tidal streams alone.

Took a paycut for Tidal, by not releasing it on the market for purchase

Kept working on the album and released an updated version to fully take advantage of Tidal's service

250 million streams in the first 10 days

As a point of comparison, Spotify, which counts 30 million paid subscribers to Tidal’s three million global users, said its best week of streaming belongs to Mr. Bieber’s latest album, “Purpose,” which debuted to 205 million global streams in seven days, and 224 million in its first 10 — fewer than Tidal’s count for “Pablo.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/arts/music/kanye-west-life-pablo-tidal-streams.html

Where are all the people that were clowning Kanye nonstop for releasing it on Tidal now?

Mocking the man for supporting a black owned business

Everyone was saying Tidal can't be successful? WTF is Jay thinking going against Spotify?

Kanye proved all that shyt is false.

sounds good... but this entire post is a lie


Kanye West's new album is still waiting for its chart debut.

Unless the rapper has a change of heart, only TIDAL users can listen to The Life of Pablo.

And now The New York Times reports that the service isn't revealing any streaming figures, which means the album can't be counted in the Billboard chart over in the US.

"Billboard has been informed that TIDAL is not currently reporting streams for tracks on Kanye's album to Nielsen Music," said Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard's vice president of charts and data development.

"Therefore streams from TIDAL for this title will not contribute to Billboard's chart rankings at this time."

Kanye's TIDAL loyalty catapulted the streaming service to the top of the US App Store chart; nevertheless The Life of Pablo has also been pirated over half a million times.

The Official Charts has confirmed to Digital Spy that streaming-only albums are not eligible to chart if there is no download or physical format, so as it stands, Kanye's album also can't chart in the UK.














so what actually happened is, Ye's album could have been on the charts... TIDAL REFUSED to send in official numbers to billboard.. then months later, we get unconfirmed numbers, and still no official reporting to billboard


any company could just report numbers if they felt like it.. the problem is, when you want to chart, the charting companies send people to VERIFY these numbers... now if you really did 250-400 million streams.. why on earth would you not want an outside source to come verify that

 

[BarackStar]

I don't fukk with Tidal but I heard Life Of Pablo for the first time today.

It's legit.

That's real music right there; not that cacophony of pretentious garbage that Kendrick is trying to pass of as "art".

Who that in your avi

 

[Saiyajin]

sounds good... but this entire post is a lie


Kanye West's new album is still waiting for its chart debut.

Unless the rapper has a change of heart, only TIDAL users can listen to The Life of Pablo.

And now The New York Times reports that the service isn't revealing any streaming figures, which means the album can't be counted in the Billboard chart over in the US.

"Billboard has been informed that TIDAL is not currently reporting streams for tracks on Kanye's album to Nielsen Music," said Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard's vice president of charts and data development.

"Therefore streams from TIDAL for this title will not contribute to Billboard's chart rankings at this time."

Kanye's TIDAL loyalty catapulted the streaming service to the top of the US App Store chart; nevertheless The Life of Pablo has also been pirated over half a million times.

The Official Charts has confirmed to Digital Spy that streaming-only albums are not eligible to chart if there is no download or physical format, so as it stands, Kanye's album also can't chart in the UK.














so what actually happened is, Ye's album could have been on the charts... TIDAL REFUSED to send in official numbers to billboard.. then months later, we get unconfirmed numbers, and still no official reporting to billboard


any company could just report numbers if they felt like it.. the problem is, when you want to chart, the charting companies send people to VERIFY these numbers... now if you really did 250-400 million streams.. why on earth would you not want an outside source to come verify that

That article is from February 22, The album came out a few days earlier and the reason they didn't release the numbers is because it was Kanye's request. Not Tidal trying to hide something

this is according to an article written by Billboard yesterday.

Tidal also finally released numbers for Kanye West's The Life of Pablo streams for the first time, after West requested the service withhold the numbers when the album first became available in February. According to Tidal, Pablo surpassed 250 million streams in its first 10 days of release.

Here's the Billboard article

Tidal Claims Three Million Global Subscribers, Finally Releases Kanye's 'Pablo' Stream Numbers

In its first year, Tidal claims to have passed three million paid subscribers globally, adding about 2.5 million subs to the approximately 540,000 it had when it launched in the U.S.

That growth


Of those subscribers, 45 percent, or around 1.35 million, have signed up for its hi-fidelity, lossless audio/video tier, which costs $19.99 per month as opposed to its regular $9.99/month tier.

They willing to pay twice as much as spotify, that user loyalty

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Yeah of course, my co-worker signed up for Tidal just for Kanye. And when her free trial was over they extended it. I know she's not the only one who signed up for Kanye. Clearly cause the numbers don't lie